Since 2012, Mobile Vaani has been reaching thousands of people in India’s vast hinterlands with news, views and information about health, banking, education, sanitation, sexuality,...
Elected Women Representatives Use IVR for Accountability
Since the day it started operating, Gram Vaani has always strived to live its name, to be the voice of the village. The different campaigns...
#NotStatusQuo – how India’s social welfare delivery can be improved
#NotStatusQuo drew attention to systemizing temporary systems put in place during the lockdown & subsequent months to improve social security and welfare delivery in India....
लोग अपना पेट काटकर मिटा रहे हैं बच्चों की भूख, कहां गया 68% बच्चों के मिड-डे मील का पैसा?
कोविड संकट और लॉकडाउन ने हमारे समाज की उन बुनियादी आवाश्यकताओं की कमर तोड़ दी है, जिनके बारे में समाज का रईस तबका बात तक...
Short audio clips help students learn in rural Bihar
Tuplal Das’ clear voice rings out in Hindi. After greeting his audience, he introduces himself as a member of Lahanti
How has NREGA fared during lockdown?
Often the sole source of income for rural households, NREGA has been plagued with issues during the pandemic. Insights from the ground explain why.
IDR Ground Up | Fired for taking a day off
Not all jobs lost during the lockdown have come back. From Gram Vaani’s work with informal and registered workers across industries in north and south...
Industrial sector workers largely insecure, underpaid: Survey
The garments sector workers were more severely hit than the others with 20 per cent workers saying their earnings dropped by more than Rs 2,000...
Elevating the Collective Consumer Voice in Financial Regulation
Elevating the collective voice of digital financial services (DFS) consumers can give them more say and more power in the financial sector.